China is no longer content to dominate supercomputing on the ground. It is now wiring thousands of satellites into a single, ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test — a comprehensive model for estimating the origins of Earth’s habitability, based in part on ocean acidity. The new ...

Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way are three times more likely to have the same type of minerals as Earth than astronomers had previously thought. In fact, conditions for making ...

Earth’s origin story has always had missing pages, from the chemistry of its first crust to the ingredients that seeded life. Now, a series of breakthroughs, from asteroid samples to ancient rocks ...

A huge "potentially hazardous asteroid" about as wide as the Empire State Building's height is due to zoom past the Earth on Friday. This asteroid, named 2008 OS7, is estimated to be between 690 and 1 ...

Earth-based building materials have long offered a sustainable alternative to conventional construction, drawing on locally available resources such as clay, sand, and natural fibres. Contemporary ...

Muon Space said the FireSat project has received financial support from Google Research and other non-governmental organizations. Credit: Muon Space KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Muon Space, a startup developing ...